Harmonic minor keys are ... of the degrees of the scale. In the jazz styles of Gershwin and Kern, the dominant seventh was often substituted with an augmented chord.This gave the tonic-dominant ...

Just as with the C chord, Em is almost identical to a scale, this time the E minor pentatonic scale. The notes of the scale always sound good over an Em chord. The challenge with any scale-based ...

All the chords built on other notes in the scale of C are minor, except chord VII - the notes B – D – F, which is diminished. When a seventh is added to a chord this is known as a seventh chord.